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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.
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my good bitch 💎 @clozilla.cryptoanarchy.network · 16/09/2026
This lawsuit is good, but I feel so deeply bitter that traumatic violence against Black families has to be shared publicly every single day for people to take things like abortion bans and police brutality seriously.
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Chad C @chadc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is particularly crazy when you see how many NFL venues are scheduled to host Kanye West, a guy who literally released a song about Hitler. Including two of the stadiums who threatened Sheeran! But he didn’t say anything good about Palestinians so it’s fine.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him ar ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three vears. So whv is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saving Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian iberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cowards
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Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran’s US tour after ‘free Palestine’ speech
The American rapper will no longer support Sheeran’s US leg of Loop tour after comments at MetLife Stadium show
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
wtf kind of pets they got in there
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PROHIBITED IN BUILDING
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities." irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...
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Computational complexity for hype immunity
Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity…
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🚨 Calling on all my Cognitive Science colleagues on here to please support the Cognitive Science program in Aarhus, Denmark, to stay international. 👇✉️ ✍️
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It doesn’t matter if you eat organic foods. It doesn’t matter if you exercise regularly. It doesn’t matter if you inject peptides. It doesn’t matter if you have “good genes”. None of these things will prevent you from contracting vaccine-preventable diseases. There is only one thing that will.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Shout out to everyone who said it was just a temporary distraction and not a central organizing principle of modern fascism.
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Elon Musk’s PAC makes transgender people its multi-million-dollar midterm target
America PAC is attacking Democrats in four competitive Senate races as the trillionaire prepares to spend at least $100 million helping Republicans.
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
as I've been writing a chapter on the problem of 'security' --yes, this includes social security, health security, human security, etc--is that it too often involves a kind of policing that is not immediately recognized as policing
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 31/08/2026
Flock CEO lying and spreading propaganda to police departments? Say it ain't so! ( @404media.co's reporting on Flock is outstanding and a great reason to subscribe)
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Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media's Reporting on Abortion Case
Garrett Langley, Flock’s CEO, told cops that a 404 Media story about cops using Flock to track someone who self-administered an abortion was "entirely false." He's lying.
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Deny, Defend, Depose (Carl Nyberg) @carlnyberg312.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
John Roberts allows Trump to make a joke of federal courts.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social has a great video on Instagram on the continuing outage in Gary, IN: www.instagram.com/reel/DceJqLW...
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I still remember the fury and insults and threats I got, in the aftermath of Dobbs, when I tried to convince folks that the fight for abortion rights and the fight for trans rights were the same fight for self-determination and bodily autonomy. I hope folks are ready to believe, now.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 20/08/2026
scratch a "good cop"
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20/08/2026
> Caroline Russell-Clark, a mother of one of the schoolmates, said she remembered Arday having "serious learning difficulties", and that "I do not remember him speaking until he was playing in the same football team as my son aged 14-15." www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-a... 14/
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Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20/08/2026
Before I go on, I want to just interject that none of the claims were that unbelievable for London especially nor weird, what was "weird" (read unhingedly racist) was the media decided to trust eugenicists and racial realists, who have a clear agenda to lie and distort, over his actual words. 2/
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 19/08/2026
the same people calling us racist for thinking Jeffries is bad at his job because he is
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
It’s … bad that ostensible “allies” keep framing diversity as an extravagance or vanity apart from the “important” work of their politics.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
to recap: so Hong got 40% in Wisconsin which shows voters decisively rejected democratic socialism, but Fishback 10% in Florida, so the far-right is winning.
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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Dunwoody, Georgia, a city with a population of 50,000 and 400 Flock feeds, faced public outrage when the Flock marketing VP, Bob Carter, was found accessing a camera in a children’s gym, live & recorded footage. Employees also watched pools. Despite this, the city renewed its contracts with Flock.
Via https://jasonhunyar.substack.com/p/why-are-flock-employees-watching-720
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I love how conservative government ID pushes keep punishing women for taking their husband's name.
globalnews.ca
Married women share problems renewing Alberta driver’s licences | Globalnews.ca
Married women like Christine Orme say they're having problems when their documents don't match, because some have their maiden name and others have their married name.
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
There were over 120 ALPRs in Tucson at the time of Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping, which demands the question: why didn't they help solve the case?
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In New Low, Flock CEO Insists His AI-Surveillance Cameras Could Have Solved the Nancy Guthrie Case
Garrett Langley insists his cameras would have found Nancy Guthrie, even though her city was covered in ALPRs at the time of her kidnapping.
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Writing is a tool that enables people…to wrestle with facts and ideas. It's a physical activity, unlike reading. Writing requires us to operate some kind of mechanism… It compels us by the repeated effort of language to go after those thoughts and to organize them and present them clearly." Zinsser
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This man is bribed regularly so that more of us will die needlessly and he accepts that bargain for his own benefit. When I say regularly on here that there isn't that much difference between the parties this is what I mean.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.myatproto.social · 17/08/2026
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
the amount of money Justice Sam Alito has made from fossil fuels while on the bench is literally greater than all the money he had to his name before he became a judge ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
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The Supreme Court’s Recusal Rules Are Worthless
Cases involving the oil and gas industry are great for Justice Samuel Alito, a noted investor in the oil and gas industry.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Their best defense against the growing challenge from the left would be simply to meet the moment and act more aggressively against Trump. If they just did that, half the energy behind DSA challenges would dissipate and they'd be safe. But no, they'd rather punch left in a panic.
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Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There is no science called 'race science', 'race realism' or similar. The media would do well not to uncritically use these terms.
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Infinity Connect @infinityconnect.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@fbpech.bsky.social How is this even possible?
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AdriOfTheDead @adrimakesart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
so if AI is ”just a tool”, why would you be *this* embarrassed to have someone find out you use it…?
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause." Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
I've been accused of plagiarism three times. 1. In ninth grade, I won a poetry contest. The English department head, a Black elder, didn't believe I'd written the poem because I had botanical flower names in it. I was quizzed and passed... my grandmother was literally raised in a Florida garden.
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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 15/08/2026
I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"decent Black academics" blatant code for 'you're not like the rest of them'. The grass has been cut, the snakes have shown themselves. Absolute scum
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
What should have been an internal matter at Cambridge became an international story led by UK media, driven by right wing agitators on both sides of the pond. And now, this tragedy is the outcome. Rest in peace and power, Jason. Thinking of his wife, his children, and all who loved him tonight.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Yeah, no one said that. You can’t just create an argument that you can refute while not listening to everyone who kept saying that it was being blown out of proportion because the bigots seized on it as an anti-DEI story and evidence of the scandal of black intellectualism. They were clear about it.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NPRs Peter Sagal has blocked me for criticizing his bootlicking of Karoline Leavitt. Tell him hi for me lol.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"something like the Minority Report...most of them had Moroccan names...they got house visits, got school visits...the self-fulfilling prophecy making it so." Monstrous story of the Dutch state using AI to "predict" which children would be "violent" Everyone should listen to this.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
ordering this immediately!
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Man, this puts into words something that's been bothering me for the last 20 years -- self-similarity based on tastes acceptable to the mid quintiles is making it harder and harder for new, different, regional, cultural, and unique places to survive.
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Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.
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